What year did Sears lose the "Lady" from Kenmore ???

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out of curiosity when did Sears stop using the brand name " Lady Kenmore" for their TOL appliances ? Does anyone know? My bet is in the 70s with the rise of feminism etc.
 
Others may know the exact year.......

but Lady "K" was still being used just about till 2000.....

My first new set from Sears was the Lady "K" in 1986.....and these were TOL (non-digital)......

the Digital sets were called LIMITED's

after the Ladies and the Limiteds came the "ELITEs".......which I am not impressed with....
 
Also what about "COLDSPOT" for refrigerators.......when did that stop, a shame though....these were their trademarks.....

Lady K
Coldspot
Craftsman
LXI

all known names that meant it came from Sears/Roebuck, another one that got dropped, well not really dropped, but for years thats how you refered to them...
 
I remember coldspot fridge

I remember cold spot fridges my mother use to own one that was harvest gold the freezer was on top but it was a great fridge

and my question is around what time of year did they stop using real wood tops on portable dishwashers like this one particular model? i had that particular model of a portable dishwasher in harvest gold as a kid as well as my godmother har a similar model portable as well that she converted to built in a couple of years later but her model had the push to start button.

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My mom's BOL side-by-side must have been among the last of the Coldspots.

 

It arrived in 1975 and remained in the same place for the next 33 years.  I let them take it away when our new KA Architect side-by-side was delivered.  I already had a '70 Whirlpool party fridge with a wide door, something I prefer over a side-by-side in order to accommodate large trays and/or cake boxes, so I had no reason to hang onto the Coldspot even though it looked good as new and ran that way too.  Nobody I knew wanted it, so off it went.  I felt reasonably confident that the delivery men would have a way of re-routing it to a new home if they saw fit, since this was well prior to any cash-for-clunkers program and related verification systems.
 
Another Sears "brand" that vanished was HOMEART. It was on water heaters, furnaces and steel kitchen cabinets and probably other things I don't know about. Our HOMEART water heater had a beautiful square escutcheon that was in pale shades of gold and turquoise. We got it in the late 50s.
 
I think Sears still uses "Coldspot" on the model number tags of their refrigerators.
 
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